Simon McNeil
@simonm223.bsky.social
Artist, critic, weirdo pomo leftist.
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Blogger at http://simonmcneil.com
Opinions do not represent anybody else.
Ask me my opinions on wizards.
He / Him
Blogger at http://simonmcneil.com
The charismatic Alan Dershowitz:
![Cohen divide their time between homes in Martha's Vineyard, Miami Beach, and Manhattan.[160] In 2025, Dershowitz threatened to sue a pierogi seller at a Martha's Vineyard farmer's market and called them antisemitic after the seller refused him service on multiple occasions over his connections to Epstein.[161][162][163] The community largely sided with the pierogi seller over Dershowitz and the pierogi seller noted that they (the seller) were Jewish.[164]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iw6baony4smnjgraewtwtdd2/bafkreie4fb5mchgfbk3dfryxu5rcglayf77xva7dbhvkysexcxkci6ofni@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The charismatic Alan Dershowitz:
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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
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I’m going with a) no, they really, really can’t and b) the larger problem is the use cases with tech adopters who pretend/ insist they can.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’m going with a) no, they really, really can’t and b) the larger problem is the use cases with tech adopters who pretend/ insist they can.
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In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Hell yeah, that rocks.
I’m going to be learning how to produce dance shows next year so soon I will be able to make my dream of raising way more money for local charities and mutual aid groups than I could possibly give on my own.
I’m going to be learning how to produce dance shows next year so soon I will be able to make my dream of raising way more money for local charities and mutual aid groups than I could possibly give on my own.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Hell yeah, that rocks.
I’m going to be learning how to produce dance shows next year so soon I will be able to make my dream of raising way more money for local charities and mutual aid groups than I could possibly give on my own.
I’m going to be learning how to produce dance shows next year so soon I will be able to make my dream of raising way more money for local charities and mutual aid groups than I could possibly give on my own.
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It’s a shame, it was actually pretty fun before it went public and even in the early days of it being public. It didn’t take much longer than Twitter after Musk took over to start circling the drain.
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s a shame, it was actually pretty fun before it went public and even in the early days of it being public. It didn’t take much longer than Twitter after Musk took over to start circling the drain.
The fact thst my reaction to the last two discourse things on this app is to say "I don't want to do that again" suggests social media is losing its tenuous grasp on my attention.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The fact thst my reaction to the last two discourse things on this app is to say "I don't want to do that again" suggests social media is losing its tenuous grasp on my attention.
The last time I paid attention to food discourse was when a gang of jerks bullied a nice lady off of social media for sharing chilli with her neighbors. Said jerks principally threatened to cook and eat her pet.
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The last time I paid attention to food discourse was when a gang of jerks bullied a nice lady off of social media for sharing chilli with her neighbors. Said jerks principally threatened to cook and eat her pet.
Perfect encapsulation of rights under capitalism: depravity and cruelty against a 17 year old girl is fine but don't you dare interfere with her property.
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a transgender activist, but was found guilty of criminal damage to her mobile phone.
Father Ted’s Graham Linehan cleared of transphobic harassment
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Perfect encapsulation of rights under capitalism: depravity and cruelty against a 17 year old girl is fine but don't you dare interfere with her property.
Either I'm fine or I'm fucked, no in-between.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Either I'm fine or I'm fucked, no in-between.
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The Canadian right wing convoy culture is the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen and the fact that the people at the heart of these movements may actually effect policy is an indictment on our whole country and culture
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Canadian right wing convoy culture is the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen and the fact that the people at the heart of these movements may actually effect policy is an indictment on our whole country and culture
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back in the early 2010s each year the phone would do something new and better each year. now every phone is nearly identical from year to year so there's no reason to upgrade if your current one still works
![An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreigunh6t53vvgp2sewo2fsy4xttrwgy3zrdwplje7j2qjop5jdeyxy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
back in the early 2010s each year the phone would do something new and better each year. now every phone is nearly identical from year to year so there's no reason to upgrade if your current one still works
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people potentially have less money to upgrade too but i think this is the main reason tbh
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
people potentially have less money to upgrade too but i think this is the main reason tbh
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The only time I ever want to read the name "Andrew Tate" is in a headline that also includes "Sentenced to 4,000 Years Underneath Prison" or "Devoured Alive by Scorpions"
please stop showing stuff from andrew tate.
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The only time I ever want to read the name "Andrew Tate" is in a headline that also includes "Sentenced to 4,000 Years Underneath Prison" or "Devoured Alive by Scorpions"
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hewwo 🤪 banned for 3 days bc i called a tech bro afraid of public transit a pansy ass bitch. anyway they're on trains in my city trying to promote eugenics
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
hewwo 🤪 banned for 3 days bc i called a tech bro afraid of public transit a pansy ass bitch. anyway they're on trains in my city trying to promote eugenics
Are we doing book piracy discourse again? Time is a flat circle. That is all.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Are we doing book piracy discourse again? Time is a flat circle. That is all.
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ME AS A VAMPIRE: I want to drink your salty neck gravy
MY VICTIM: uuuugh you made it weird
ME: *retracting fangs* are you mad at me
MY VICTIM: uuuugh you made it weird
ME: *retracting fangs* are you mad at me
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
ME AS A VAMPIRE: I want to drink your salty neck gravy
MY VICTIM: uuuugh you made it weird
ME: *retracting fangs* are you mad at me
MY VICTIM: uuuugh you made it weird
ME: *retracting fangs* are you mad at me
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You know ... modi is absolute trash for a million reasons. None of those are the fact that he doesn't wear a suit.
Great job, Canada👍 making a deal with a guy who doesn’t wear a suit 👍👍👍
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and I met at the G20 Summit today, and launched negotiations for a trade deal that could more than double our trade to $70 billion.
India is the world’s fifth largest economy, and that means big new opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses.
India is the world’s fifth largest economy, and that means big new opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
You know ... modi is absolute trash for a million reasons. None of those are the fact that he doesn't wear a suit.
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
She's a few turnips short of a truck, eh?
Someone really wants to be bankrupt when that defamation lawsuit is all over.
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
She's a few turnips short of a truck, eh?
What I see moments before a preventative block.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
What I see moments before a preventative block.
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The fuck you mean Gmail now automatically forces AI features, which scan all your content in your inbox and if you disable it, the autocorrect will stop working and you can no longer categorize your email????
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The fuck you mean Gmail now automatically forces AI features, which scan all your content in your inbox and if you disable it, the autocorrect will stop working and you can no longer categorize your email????
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen
52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm)
Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49.
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
If some fuckers tried this with me I'd damn well make sure to include every single one of these in my speaking engagement. But withdrawing is definitely the correct, non-petty, thing to do.
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If some fuckers tried this with me I'd damn well make sure to include every single one of these in my speaking engagement. But withdrawing is definitely the correct, non-petty, thing to do.